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JavaScript Bible, Fifth Edition

Danny Goodman and Michael Morrison

Price: $14.99 USD

Lowest used price: $6.75 USD

Preface:

For over 20 years,I have written the books I wished had already been written to help me
learn or use a new technology. When ever possible, I like to get in at the very beginning of
a new authoring or programming environment, feel the growing pains, and share with readers
the solutions to my struggles. This fifth edition of the JavaScript™ Bible represents knowledge
and experience accumulated over eight years of daily work in JavaScript and a constant monitoring of newsgroups for questions, problems, and challenges facing scripters at all levels.
My goal is to help you avoid the same frustration and head scratching I and others have
experienced through multiple generations of scriptable browsers.

While the earliest editions of this book focused on the then predominant Netscape Navigator
browser, the swing of the browser market share pendulum currently favors Microsoft Internet
Explorer on the Windows platform. But the more important trend is the Web developer community’s demand for browser compliance with a growing body of industry standards. Potential conflicts arise when the dominant browser on the Internet does not fully support existing standards, but instead provides proprietary alternatives. The job of a book claiming to be the “bible” is not only to present both the standard and proprietary details when they diverge, but also to show you how to write scripts that blend the two so that they work on as many browsers as possible.
Empowering you to design and write good scripts is my passion, regardless of browser. It’s true
that my bias is toward industry standards, but not to the exclusion of proprietary features that
may be necessary to get your content and scripting ideas flowing equally well on today’s and
tomorrow’s browsers.

Content:

5 main chapters, from chapter 1 - how JavaScript compares with Java and discuses its role with interest of the World Wide Web to chapter 5 - Several appendixes at the end of the book provide helpful reference information. Also with book attached useful CD.

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Devilib.com rating - (Great book for every JavaScript programmer from newbie to expert)

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